State of the Union

[Halon]

Just thought I'd put this out there, see who watched the speech last night and what people thought about it.

I thought it went very well. I only watched about 2/3 of it. And everything in that portion that I watched, I was happy and agreed with him on. Except for the whole phone tapping thing. I don't know the full details of his plan, so maybe it's not as bad as it sounds. But I think that tapping random, possibly innocent, peoples phone lines and listening in on their conversations shouldn't be legal. I think that is going too far, but that's just me.

I totally agreed with his plan to enhance Nuclear Power growth within the nation to help us move more away from petroleum based city power. I agree with using technology to have cars run off an alternative and cleaner form of power. He said he had a plan to creat a timeline that would have the US on a path to be substantially less dependant on petroleum fuel by 2025, and that way our economy will be much less dependant on the oil we get from the unstable middle east. If that is possible, then I think it's great. I agree with getting the Social Security Issue acted upon. I agree that we should not pull our troops out of Iraq, even if you believe we shouldn't have started it in the first place. Pulling out now would leave all those people helpless and possibly worse off then they were before. We should finish what we started and not retreat from it. Pointing fingers at Bush or whomever, and saying it's their fault, that is not a solution and will get us nowhere. What happened in the past can't be changed, it happened, and we must work from there to make things right. And pulling out now would make the US look horrible I believe, and again would end up being a horrible situation for Iraqi citizens, and I think it's the wrong decision. He said he had a plan to cut the national debt in half by 2009. If that really is possible and we can find a way to do that, then I think that is great! Cutting government funded programs that aren't performing, I can see how that could be bad for the people involved with them, but that's how the world works. If you aren't performing up to your expectations, then of course you will find yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place.